"We have revised downward our estimate of the total number of users affected by this issue from 0.08% to 0.02% of Google Mail users. Access has been restored for one third of the affected users. The remaining 0.013% of accounts are being restored on an ongoing basis."

It’s estimated that there are around 200 million Gmail accounts worldwide.

Were you affected by the outage and have you got your emails back?

It makes you stop and think about what would happen if Google lost everything in your email folders - permanently.